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Monday, September 15, 2014

Summer Is Over, Hello Fall (Almost)

What a busy summer we had!!! So much has happened the past few months and the more time that goes past, the harder it gets to update my blog! First things first.....wedding pics!!!

Whew!!!! And there ya have it!!!!! Everything was so perfect! We couldn't have asked for a better day!

Sunday, July 13, 2014

4th Of July....continued!!

After the parade on the 4th, we hurried home and loaded up the van!! We headed to Arco for the weekend, to stay with Samantha's in-laws! We are so blessed that our daughter's found wonderful men that came from great family's!!! Never in a million years did I ever think we would hang out/spend the weekend with our children's in-laws!!! So fun!!!

His Aunties could not get enough of him!!! Love this boy!!

Friday night we spent about 3 hours doing fireworks!! We had purchased a giant box full from some friend's at church and I didn't think they would ever end! After that, Sam's in-laws did their show, which was way more amazing than anything we have ever done!!! They buy the mortar's from the Indian Reservation and that was a whole new experience in itself!!! Finally around 10:30, we got to watch the local firework show, which was pretty impressive considering the total population is like, 1000. They have a man that builds the fireworks himself!!!

Some of the crew, watching the show!! That box to the left was packed full of fireworks!!!

We may have had to put out a small fire caused by a firework that went a little crazy! Luckily, it landed right next to the canal behind their house!!! Whew!!

The next day after eating a yummy breakfast and hanging out for a little bit, we took everyone to the local diner for lunch! When all 18 of us walked in, the two girls working that day looked like they might just pass out!!!

After that, we loaded everyone up and headed out to "Swinging Tree"!! I honestly did not know what to expect!!! After leaving the regular road and driving on dirt roads for several miles, we left our van parked by the side of the road and climbed into one of Sam's Father-in-law's 4 wheel drive trucks (they brought 2 up the mountain). The drive up was enough to freak me out! We finally arrived in a meadow and piled out! Then we began the hike up the side of a mountain! I was so glad I had brought Olivia's backpack!!! Samantha had one on for Brooklyn as well!

Just when I thought I might die from the hike, we arrived at the swing!! It wasn't anything like I had imagined!! Everyone was a little apprehensive to try it at first but after watching Colt and then his brothers do it, our kids started giving it a shot!

Savannah, Isaiah and Jasmine all went with Scott the first time and after that, I couldn't keep them off of it!!! Everyone loved it!!! I loved watching them do it!!! I will try to post a couple of videos so you can see it!!

After we finished up there, we headed back to their house. Scott took 4 kids swimming to get the dirt off! :) We had an amazing bbq dinner and then later, roasted marshmallows and had s'mores!!

Sunday was the whole reason we came......it was Brooklyn's Blessing day!!! Samantha, in her spare time of being a mom of two cute children, full time college student and wife, made Brooklyn's blessing dress!!!! It was gorgeous!!!

I know she doesn't look happy, but look at that dress!!!!!! Gorgeous!!! And she is such a little sweetheart! Those big beautiful eyes just stare at you so intently!

Beautiful Mama and baby girl!

Love these two!

Daddy with his girls.

Our first born with her 2nd born!

The whole bunch of us!

Such a beautiful family!

Monday, July 7, 2014

4th Of July!!!

The 4th is one of our favorite holidays!!! We have so many traditions that we do on that day! We always put our flags out, we always go to the parade, we always have a bbq and we always watch/do fireworks!!! This year was no different, with one exception: we didn't have a bbq but what we did do made up for it!!

After the parade, we loaded up and drove 3 1/2 hours to Samantha's in-laws! We were spending the weekend with them and were so excited to have a little mini vacation!!

Here are some pics from the parade!!

Can't see her cute little 4th of July outfit....darn it.

We're hoping she gets teeth in her mouth some day to fill in the gaps!!

Hope everyone had a safe and happy 4th!!!

Leap Frog!!

I have been stalling with writing any blog posts since the wedding because I want to post the pics and tell you all about it......but I don't have any pictures...yet. Our amazing photographers have told us it will be a few weeks....maybe a month! But then I realized I can't wait that long to post because our lives just keep on moving along, so I will do a "wedding post" when I get the pictures but until then here is a sneak peek!!

We needed a few days of down time after the wedding/reception! We were totally exhausted. We decided to rent a ski boat and go boating for a day since Scott had another week of vacation (he took the week of the wedding off, as well as the following week).

We arrived at the lake and put the boat in the water. Everyone was so excited to get going. But the boat wouldn't start. We tried everything we could think of. Finally Scott called the place we rented it from and they very kindly offered to bring us another boat. It turned out to be a pontoon boat but that was totally fine with me and it had a big enough engine that we could still pull the kids on the tube and knee board! While we waited for the new boat to get there, we ate lunch and the kids played in the water.

We spent the next 5 hours on the water! It was a gorgeous day!! So much fun and so many great memories!! Here area few pics from the day!!!